The constant stream of fake news is getting worse rather than lessening. How many stories will the media get wrong in their rush to try to hang things on President Trump? It's hard to see where this will stop.
Here's what we know:
1. So far this year, there have been quite a number of stories pushed by the mainstream media that have turned out to be totally false. The latest one just came out a few hours ago. In the spring, CNN and the other media made a major point of how Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose certain meetings with Russians on his FBI disclosure form filed in connection with his nomination for Attorney General. Sessions said that he had been told by the FBI not to include meetings held as part of his regular duties as a senator. CNN especially denounced that answer as a lie. They put "experts" on who explained that the FBI would NEVER give such advice. Today, CNN has been forced to admit that emails released by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act disclose that the FBI did indeed give Sessions the exact advice he claimed had been given to him. In other words, the CNN report was just totally wrong.
2. In the last week, CNN put out phony stories about the Trump campaign supposedly getting advance notice of Wikileaks dumps of DNC materials (it didn't.) Then there's ABC News with the phony Brian Ross report that Trump told Flynn to contact Russia during the campaign (he didn't.) There's many others too.
3. Not even a single "mistake" by the media was in favor of President Trump's position. Each time, the media spread a scurrilous lie and then later "corrected" it as just a "mistake". One time that might be. Even twice, it might be a mistake. By the tenth time, however, it's pretty clear that this is a disinformation campaign and not a mistake.
4. They're using the same tactics in the Roy Moore attack. Multiple women said Moore tried to date them when he was around 30 and they were 18 or 19. There's nothing wrong with that, but the reports all list these women as complaining about being sexually harassed (they weren't.) It's just another lie.
I understand that the media hates both President Trump and the Republican party. They're allowed; it's ok. What is not ok, however, is the practice by the media to lie and spread false stories designed to harm the President or the Republicans. You can't claim that the tax cut bill will take money from the middle class to give to the wealthy when that is not true even arguably. You can't talk about Trump-Russia collusion when the only supposed evidence to support that claim is a series of phony stories that the media writes off as "mistakes". Honesty and truth have to come into play at some point.
Here's what we know:
1. So far this year, there have been quite a number of stories pushed by the mainstream media that have turned out to be totally false. The latest one just came out a few hours ago. In the spring, CNN and the other media made a major point of how Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose certain meetings with Russians on his FBI disclosure form filed in connection with his nomination for Attorney General. Sessions said that he had been told by the FBI not to include meetings held as part of his regular duties as a senator. CNN especially denounced that answer as a lie. They put "experts" on who explained that the FBI would NEVER give such advice. Today, CNN has been forced to admit that emails released by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act disclose that the FBI did indeed give Sessions the exact advice he claimed had been given to him. In other words, the CNN report was just totally wrong.
2. In the last week, CNN put out phony stories about the Trump campaign supposedly getting advance notice of Wikileaks dumps of DNC materials (it didn't.) Then there's ABC News with the phony Brian Ross report that Trump told Flynn to contact Russia during the campaign (he didn't.) There's many others too.
3. Not even a single "mistake" by the media was in favor of President Trump's position. Each time, the media spread a scurrilous lie and then later "corrected" it as just a "mistake". One time that might be. Even twice, it might be a mistake. By the tenth time, however, it's pretty clear that this is a disinformation campaign and not a mistake.
4. They're using the same tactics in the Roy Moore attack. Multiple women said Moore tried to date them when he was around 30 and they were 18 or 19. There's nothing wrong with that, but the reports all list these women as complaining about being sexually harassed (they weren't.) It's just another lie.
I understand that the media hates both President Trump and the Republican party. They're allowed; it's ok. What is not ok, however, is the practice by the media to lie and spread false stories designed to harm the President or the Republicans. You can't claim that the tax cut bill will take money from the middle class to give to the wealthy when that is not true even arguably. You can't talk about Trump-Russia collusion when the only supposed evidence to support that claim is a series of phony stories that the media writes off as "mistakes". Honesty and truth have to come into play at some point.
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